A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
- Awards
- 23 wins & 13 nominations
Tamara Xanath
- Aurora
- (as Tamara Shanath)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaIn an interview included on the Criterion edition of this movie, Ron Perlman talks about how Angel was meant to speak Spanish fluently. Ron Perlman tried this, but Guillermo del Toro found his reading to be completely unusable. So, the character was changed to an expatriated American who so hates being in Mexico, that what little Spanish he speaks is deliberately spoken poorly.
- GoofsWhen Jesús searches for Aurora after she has taken the Cronos, as he walks through two doors, he stops. Behind him, reflected in the glass of the door, is crew and equipment.
- Quotes
[discussing why Deiter wants the Cronos]
Jesus Gris: He thinks it will help him live longer.
Angel de la Guardia: [laughs] That fucker does nothing but shit and piss all day, and he wants to live longer?
- Alternate versionsSome explicit nudity was added in the US video release. While the primary American theatrical version contains a prologue and patches of dialogue in English, a secondary market version will be entirely in Spanish.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Masters of Horror (2002)
- SoundtracksDie Schöne Müllerin
Franz Schubert
Arreglov: Charlotte Georg (as Lee Ashley) BMI
Editor: Software Music BMI
Cortesia de Capitol Productions Music - Ole Georg
Featured review
Best Horror Movie of the 1990s.
'Cronos' is a rarity: an original, intelligent, suprising, and genuinely creepy horror movie! A wonderful unpredictable script, inventive direction from Guillermo del Toro (an impressive debut!) and uniformly strong acting from all concerned, make this essential viewing for not only horror buffs, but lovers of fantastic cinema of all types.
'Cronos' is a treasure! I cannot recommend this movie highly enough!
'Cronos' is a treasure! I cannot recommend this movie highly enough!
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Box office
- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $621,392
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $17,538
- Apr 3, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $621,392
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